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Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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soldiers andsailors were able to get that brieffurlough home. This service was in many cases notonly the last chance for thoseheaded out but also the first contactfor those on the way back. Earlylast Fall hundreds of liberated pris-oners who had spent four years in thefilth and despair of Japanese prison 11 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING camps made their first contact withhome by calling from Hawaii, an ex-perience that they and their lovedones alone could fully understand andappreciate. In Panama, the troops and navalpersonnel guarding the Canal Zoneshowed a similar eagerness to callhome. The Tropical Radio Tele-graph Company, too, set up a tele- the United States. Similarly, fromPuerto Rico, and in South Americaon the air route to Europe via Africa—from Curacao, Paramaribo, Recifeand Rio—Americans in increasingnumbers talked with home. To the thousands of service peoplestationed in Alaska, telephone serv-ice was available by means of radiofacilities operated by the United Wit- V
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Outpost of home: Hawaii. There many men released from Japanese prison campshad their first voice contacts with their loved ones. Here several are waiting to talk home phone center in Panama City to ac-commodate service men, and thiscenter became an oasis for Americanswhose hearts were, after all, in theU.S.A. Prospective callers arrivedfrom outlying military centers by thetruckload, and the trucks are infrom the Panama operator to theNew York operators was the warn-ing of a flood of calls to all parts of States Army Communications Sys-tem. The circuits terminate at Seat-tle, where they are interconnectedwith Bell System wire facilities forthe completion of calls throughoutthe United States. Service menstationed at Nome, Adak, Anchor-age and other Alaskan points havefound this conversational link withthe States of great value. Some ^ 1946 Three-Minute Furloughs 23 2500 calls a month, most of thempersonal calls by G.I.s, have beencompleted from Alaskan points viathe Armys radio system.

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